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Pirate Bay verdict causes massive BitTorrent exodus

But Paul McCartney thinks it's "fair"

Last week's surprise Pirate Bay guilty verdict has caused a domino effect of similar sites offering a BitTorrent tracker service.

Nordicbits, Powerbits, Piratebits, MP3nerds and Wolfbits have closed down since the Pirate Bay's founders were sentenced to jail on Friday, with more trackers to follow, according to TorrentFreak.

Appeal

The Pirate Bay was (and still is, while the defendants appeal their case) run by Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom in Sweden. While most of the aforementioned sites are also run by Swedes, there are many more hosted in the country who are yet to respond.

If they do follow suit, the exodus could mark "the greatest voluntary tracker collapse ever."